As we scanned through the Tanglewood summer schedule, we noted the many exciting events and wonderful guests scheduled to appear with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as part of this, the festival’s 75th anniversary season. We ...

Housing as an issue has always struggled to be sexy and grab people’s attention. You might think that the housing crash and its continuing repercussions might have changed that, but this is a presidential election ...

Parasite Drag begins with Joellen (Elizabeth Aspenlieder) looking out of the upstage center door, a gold cross prominently place centered over the jamb. There’s a tornado watch in effect, Joellen announces to her husband Gene ...

Were you to laugh at this production hard enough to be-merde yourself, it would only be in keeping with the spirit of the play. Molière’s “imaginary invalid,” the valetudinarian Argan (Ethan Phillips), leads us at ...

Lynn Shelton’s film Your Sister’s Sister can be viewed as, among other things, testimony to just how bloated and hackish most Hollywood romantic comedies are. According to IMDB, the movie was produced on an estimated ...

The fourth installment in the wildly popular Ice Age franchise arrives in theatres a little worn but at least much better than the last chapter, which had wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sloth Sid (John ...

Best Democrat Who Acts Like a Republican
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
State Capitol, Albany
Setting aside Cuomo’s Nixonian obsessions with enemies and secrecy—which are not inconsiderable—the governor’s most notable achievement has been to cozy up to Republicans in the ...

Best Restaurant
Café Capriccio
49 Grand St., Albany
It’s easy to take a place like this for granted, but when you visit again (because surely you’ve visited and enjoyed it already) you rediscover the seemingly effortless old-world charm ...

On one set of decks, Saturday night, Bitch Please is spinning hip-hop/dubstep mashups complete with raunchy rhymes and build-drop dynamics on the blue channel; on the green channel, Space Jesus weaves more traditional dub with ...